A Modern Book of Esthetics: An Anthology

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Pagina 10Beauty is essentially the object of intelligence, for what knows in the full meaning
of the word is the mind, which alone is open to the infinity of being. The natural
site of beauty is the intelligible world: thence it descends. But it also falls in a way
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Pagina 293to mind, about the soul, its rank and destiny— pseudo- statements which are
pivotal points in the organization of the mind, vital to its well-being, have
suddenly become, for sincere, honest, and informed minds, impossible to believe
.6 For ...

Pagina 392The highest truth about the thing must be the knowledge of the thing itself, not of
its causes and its effects; the thing itself with all its richness and all its meanings
to the human mind, and not the substitution which the scientist proposes for the ...